20160123 (me. me. meme)

It's fun, cute, clever, and oh so egocentric--I love it.

If you’re reading this I can

Safely assume you’ve fallen 

Prey to the temptation to

Enter words, photos, video

Clips, etc., either online as a

Blog, Vlog, or maybe just a

Few innocent notes on Facebook.

In short, whether you have

Thought about it in depth at all,

You have become the Editor-

Publisher of “Me Magazine.”

Thank God we don’t have to

Charge people to look at our

Posts or there’d be damn fewer

Of them. A quarter to see you

At a Golden Corral with your 

Barely lucid ninety-five year

Old Aunt Lucy downing mush

And chicken soup? You’re

Outta your mind. Those are the

“Album” types who post family

Pictures and are satisfied with a

“Nice,”  “Cute,”  “Like.” It’s

Harmless fare. No chance

They’ll post auto accidents,

Animal slaughter—worst might

Be “Us on the first plunge of

The killer roller coaster at

King’s Island.” Then there’s

The animal fanciers (I’m 

One of those) good for cute

Kittens and clever dogs which

Remind us of the natural

World we love so much. Next

Come the animal fanatics who

Seem to follow a script in

Posing their pets, so obviously

Staged no self-respecting cur

Could cooperate in their

Production, very like the 

Misbehaving children in

“Funniest Home Videos.”

There isn’t money enough in a

Hedgefund manager’s Cayman

Account to pay for the therapy

To straighten out those kids’ lives.

But let’s go quickly to the other

Half of my category “Tireless

Activist/Publicist,” who cannot

Keep from posting up-in-your

Face propaganda anywhere from

“Save the Whales” to “Free Chelsea

Manning,” from “End the Wars” to

“Break up the Banks.” Activist

Posters cannot imagine

How others can pay any

Attention to travel, family,

Gastronomic adventures,

When the world so needs 

Resetting (revolution!). If only

One could wake them 

To the dangers. But they 

Only cruise over the hard 

News about ever-higher

World average temperatures. 

Looking for your TBTs, they

Evade your Cassandra-like

Warnings, wonder if you

Want to take the test which 

Will confirm you are a lover/cheater,

Or whether you are too stuffy

To wear mismatched socks.

Oblivious to your ranting

“The world has gone to hell in

A handbasket," they blithely 

Post an umpteenth new selfie 

Proclaiming again “This is

The first day of the rest 

Of my life.”

c. J.S.Manista, 2016